Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Liftoff's Creative Serving team as a Senior Staff Engineer and contribute to the development and maintenance of mission-critical ad serving systems. You will build and maintain strategic integrations with partner exchanges, ensuring impeccable uptime and cost-effective content delivery worldwide. Collaborate with internal teams and leverage your expertise in Golang to enhance Liftoff's advertising capabilities. This role involves working closely with peers and senior engineers to maintain ad serving infrastructure, participate in code reviews, and contribute to roadmap planning. The position offers full-time remote work options in several US states and a competitive compensation package including equity and health benefits. Liftoff is a fast-paced, innovative company committed to shaping the future of the mobile app ecosystem.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years of industry experience
• Experience with Golang required
• Prior experience with mission critical systems
• Good communicator, empathetic and focused listener

Responsibilities

• Contribute to Ad Serving Architecture: Develop and maintain code that supports our ad serving architecture, ensuring reliability and performance. Participate in the on-call rotation to help troubleshoot and tackle issues as they arise
• Implement Cross-Functional Requirements: Work closely with other teams to understand their needs and translate those requirements into effective code solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing systems
• Participate in Code Reviews and Discussions: Actively engage in code reviews, contributing your insights and suggestions to improve the quality of the codebase. Take part in architectural discussions and provide valuable input into technical decisions
• Support Coding Standards and Best Practices: Collaborate with your team to uphold and refine coding standards, development processes, and best practices, ensuring consistency and quality in the work produced
• Collaborate with Peers: Work alongside fellow engineers, sharing knowledge and supporting each other’s growth. Contribute to a positive, collaborative work environment
• Engage in Roadmap Planning: Participate in brainstorming and planning sessions for the product roadmap, providing feedback and suggestions that help shape the technical direction of the team

Preferred Qualifications

• JavaScript, TypeScript and Clojure would be a bonus
• Basic knowledge of various ad formats (e.g., display, video, native) and technologies like VAST, VPAID, and MRAID is a big plus
• Some knowledge of the ad tech ecosystem, real time bidding (RTB) protocol

Benefits

• Health/vision/dental benefits
• Equity